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Clostridium perfringens. Diseases caused by Clostridium perfringens appear as a chronic or acute enteritis of piglets. Alternative names: Clostridial diseases, Clostridium perfringens type A, Clostridium perfringens type C, necrotic enteritis. Diseases caused by Clostridium perfringens appear as a chronic or acute enteritis of piglets. Clostridia are gram positive bacteria of a great size, which produce spores.
Clostridium perfringens type A. Clostridium perfringens type A is implicated in ovine and caprine enterotoxemia in some parts of the world,2,35 but it is rarely responsible for intestinal diseases in sheep and goats in North America. Type A causes yellow lamb disease,43 a rare form of acute enterotoxemia in lambs.